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f Passive margin basin evolution in the Rockall Region, North Atlantic
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 55th EAEG Meeting, Jun 1993, cp-46-00352
- ISBN: 978-94-6282-135-4
Abstract
A number of large and virtually unexplored basins lie in the deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean to the west and northwest of Ireland. They are adjacent to a complex continental-oceanic transition zone of Late Cretaceous age. Basin development in the region was in response to a number of rift and thermal subsidence events and reflects early Mesozoic unsuccessful attempts at the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean.